Hello to everyone who is reading this!
Today (31/5/23) we went to Elderly center care (I don’t know the name so this might not be it!) and played card games!
The card game is called “Seven cards” (Might not be correct!)
We had a very good time there! There was so much laughing! I hope I can go there again.
Here is a picture example of the card game:
Here is how to play seven cards:
Playing the Game
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1Deal out an entire deck of cards. Pick one person to be the dealer and have them hand out a deck of 52 playing cards, face-down and one at a time, to each person going clockwise. This game can be played with anywhere from three to eight people.[1]- Depending on the number of players, the cards may be dealt unequally. To solve this, switch dealers each round so that everyone has a round with the lowest or highest amount of cards. As long as the dealer switches clockwise and each dealer hands out cards going clockwise, the pattern will repeat fairly.
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2Arrange your hand in order of suit and numerical order. To help keep yourself focused, organize the hand dealt to you. You want to arrange the cards first by suit, and then in numerical order. It’s best to start with any twos on the far left and run them up to the ace on the far right.- A whole run will look like this: 2
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8
-9
-10
-J
-Q
-K
-A
.[2] - The four suits are hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs. Alternating the colors of the suits in your hand will also make it easier to find cards to play with.
- A whole run will look like this: 2
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3Start each round with the 7
. Whoever has the 7
lays them down on the table. When a seven of any suit is played it starts a “layout.” A layout is made by laying cards down one by one next to the seven in sequential order.
- You will have four layouts total, one for each suit.
- As the game continues, the only way a suit layout can be started on the table is if someone plays a seven.
- Some variations of this game select the person to the left of the dealer to go first, regardless of who has the 7
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4Organize the layouts on the table. Layouts go horizontally on the table. You can create a grid of 4×13 cards if you put each suit going sideways above one another. Or instead, you can start stacking the rest of the sequence of a suit on top of the 6 and 8 cards to save space.- If you lay the cards vertically within their suits, the game will resemble the solitaire setup.
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5Place one card down at a time. Each person puts down one card on their turn, but it has to be the next card in relation to the ones already on the table. For example, the next cards played after a seven will either be the six or the eight in that suit.- Going in order from the seven means you will play cards that descend to the two-card of that suit on the left-hand side of the seven and on the right-hand side, the card values will ascend to the ace.[3]For example, if you have a 10
on the table, you can only put cards of the same suit together. If a 7
is on the table, you can only play a 6
next to it, not a 6
.[4]
- Going in order from the seven means you will play cards that descend to the two-card of that suit on the left-hand side of the seven and on the right-hand side, the card values will ascend to the ace.[3]For example, if you have a 10
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6”Knock” when you cannot play any cards. (Or just say that you can’t go.) Knocking the table is one way to say that you are passing on your turn. Or instead, you can just say “pass.” You may pass when you don’t have any cards that are playable. For instance, if there are only fives through nines on the table and all you have left are twos and face cards.[5]- It is against the rules to pass on a turn if you have a card that can be played anywhere on the table.
- If playing with poker chips, one penalty you can use is that if someone passes when they had cards to play, they have to put three chips in the pot.
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7Continue playing until someone runs out of cards. Go around the table, each putting one card down until someone plays their last card. They are the winner of that round, and if you’re only playing one round then they are the winner of the game. Collect all 52 of the cards and start a new round or game.- You can play several rounds within one game to play longer or just play a quick game while killing time.
- You have several options for choosing the next dealer. One option is that the person to the left of the original dealer is now the new dealer.
- The other option is to have the winner deal the cards, or the person to the left of them. All that matters is that each person gets a chance to become the card dealer.
Hopefully this is clear.
Thank you for reading have a good day!